David Hingley

@davidhingley.bsky.social

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Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting BEM for queues

Sign saying ‘I read the rules so you don’t have to’
Sign saying PLEASE PUT THINGS BACK IN THEIR PROPER PLACES AND YOU WILL FIND THEM
A floor sticker from the covid period reminding everyone to keep two metres apart
Blister pack of tablets, each day is labelled and I think I should be going Monday to Sunday but I’ve taken Friday, Tuesday, Monday and Sunday so far. This is not down to time travel
The commentators on Winter Olympics - in a small cupboard as far as you can tell. Have added Gordon the Goffer
A bichon frisée. (Off white at present) lies amongst grey cushions and a throw. All paws in the air and tummy exposed. Asleep. You can just tell he’s snoring loudly
Headline from Get Surrey Online - reads ‘Surrey Village named among UK's best places to live that tourists mispronounce but is obvious to those who live there’
A book nook. Nestled in between a load of books on British Prime Ministers and elections (I can’t help it, I’m always fascinated). It’s a steam train in a station with a platform containing a bench and a luggage trolley. There’s a clock overhead
Photo of the lake near me, which we walk around daily. Winter trees, grey blue sky and quite a brown lake given the recent rain
Sunset over the vineyard and river at Painshill Park
A fridge - absolutely stacked with bottles of milk on every shelf
A card illustrated with a cartoon in a tapestry style with a sentry cut in half - and the number 50 with the text ‘officially half a sentry’
Milo, my Bichon frisée - giving me the big eyes as he sits on the floor next to the sofa where I am trying to eat my sandwich
Image from Disney’s animated version of ‘The sword in the stone’ featuring Arthur holding the sword - about to pull it from the stone
A display of ghost drinking jars with straws (but the box is empty so it looks like they may be properly invisible ghosts)
A Spider-Man cap which has been hooked over the back of a park bench
A standard picnic table, brown stained wood, written on it in white ‘No picnics please’
Jaffa cakes package for Hot Honey flavour Jaffa cakes - like normal Jaffa cakes but with the new flavour written on the pack and a bee image
Looking through an arch, bathed in sunshine at Peterborough Cathedral
A tabby cat leaving the medieval hall where the interviews were taking place
A steam of runners On a sunny day running towards Westminster along embankment
The cover of Magnus Mills ‘the scheme for full employment’ which includes a picture of the uni van that’s key to the book
The cover of Bono’s book ‘Bono, stories of surrender’
The cover of the ‘The List of Suspicious Things’
An unimpressed Bichon Frisée sits in the centre of the shot. Behind him is a sofa with a cushion that has the word ‘science’ on it (because our house contains a scientist), to the left of the dog is a chair to the right of the dog is a beanbag with the legs of a Bichon frisée size Mr Blobby inflatable visible
Advolly Richmond celebrates the golden age of the English landscape garden with a visit to Painshill. Standing front right in this shot with the ruined abbey behind just beyond the lake shore
Brighton pavilion in the sunshine and blue skies above
‘Mature’ runner (me), white guy with a bit of beard and a blue top and fawn coloured cap, taking a selfie - behind me assembled runners on the lawns in the sunshine at Hove seafront
A custard cream biscuit being held up for a photo, but in this case it’s got THREE biscuit layers and TWO layers of filling.
Sandy beach on a grey day. A collie dog is in the centre of the photo
Stunning river out across the stony beach to the sea